Re: GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems

2014-11-12 Thread Robert J. Hansen
If your system is trying to write to the Program Files directory, look in the VirtualStore. This can be found at This turned out to be exactly it. Thank you, Michael: this was driving me up the wall and making me wonder if I'd been hallucinating. :) _

Re: GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems

2014-11-11 Thread MichaelQuigley
"Gnupg-users" wrote on 11/08/2014 12:54:30 PM: > - Message from Werner Koch on Fri, 07 Nov 2014 > 17:32:49 +0100 - > > To: > > "Robert J. Hansen" > > cc: > > gnupg-users@gnupg.org > > Subject: > > Re: GPG 2.1.0/Win3

Re: GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems

2014-11-07 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 17:12, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > Next round of problems: doing a --list-secret-keys takes considerable > time -- approximately 28 seconds on a fairly modern > desktop. --list-keys, though, is pretty snappy. Found. The I/O layer received many EAGAIN (WSAEWOULDBLOCK). Basic

Re: GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems

2014-11-07 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 20:09, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > getting all different kinds of weird errors, from the keyserver helper > not being able to communicate with the outside world, to GnuPG Well, there are no more keyserver helpers. All is done by dirmngr. > swearing it's created output but n

Re: GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems

2014-11-07 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 16:58, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > C:\utils>gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key d5078b4f > gpg: keyserver receive failed: Input/output error Well, you caught me. I only tested GPA and knowing that its keyserver access does not yet work I probably did no tests

Re: GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems

2014-11-06 Thread Robert J. Hansen
Some of this is probably on Enigmail; some of it is probably on Win32. Ack -- I meant some of it is probably on GnuPG/Win32. :) ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems

2014-11-06 Thread Robert J. Hansen
That is why I wrote "is an experimental installer" ;-) Sure, but even then -- this is a really shaky build, Werner. I'm getting all different kinds of weird errors, from the keyserver helper not being able to communicate with the outside world, to GnuPG swearing it's created output but no ou

Re: GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems

2014-11-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 17:49, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > compels me to say that I'm running into a *lot* of problems with the > Windows build. It does not appear to me to be ready for prime time. That is why I wrote "is an experimental installer" ;-) Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken s

Re: GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems

2014-11-06 Thread Robert J. Hansen
have you converted your keyring to pubring.kbx and moved away the old pubring.gpg? I started from a brand new install, right down to emptying out my old %APPDATA%\Roaming\GnuPG directory. I reloaded keys the "hard" way, by --import \path\to\old\pubring.gpg and --import \path\to\old\secring.gp

Re: GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems

2014-11-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 16:58, r...@sixdemonbag.org said: > C:\utils>gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key d5078b4f > gpg: keyserver receive failed: Input/output error Okay, I need to debug this. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz.

Re: GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems

2014-11-06 Thread Werner Koch
On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 17:17, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: > have you converted your keyring to pubring.kbx and moved away the old > pubring.gpg? That was not the problem. I think the real problem was that the code to check whether a secret key exists parsed the entire rest of the keyring to find

Re: GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems

2014-11-06 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 11/06/2014 11:12 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> I made no changes to my gpg.conf file nor to my keyring. I've confirmed >> that I have network connectivity and I can hit >> http://pool.sks-keyservers.net. > > Next round of problems: doing a --list-secret-keys takes considerable > time -- appro

Re: GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems

2014-11-06 Thread Robert J. Hansen
I made no changes to my gpg.conf file nor to my keyring. I've confirmed that I have network connectivity and I can hit http://pool.sks-keyservers.net. Next round of problems: doing a --list-secret-keys takes considerable time -- approximately 28 seconds on a fairly modern desktop. --list-keys

GPG 2.1.0/Win32: keyserver lookup problems

2014-11-06 Thread Robert J. Hansen
There's an odd problem with 2.1.0 on Win32. Steps: 1. Uninstall existing gpg4win. 2. Install the new experimental 2.1.0 Windows installer. 3. Try to pull a key from a keyserver such as: = C:\utils>gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key d5078b4f gpg: keyserver receive failed: